MIDDLETOWN >> A court has transferred the cases of two men implicated in a drug-making blast on Mulberry Lane to Part A, which adjudicates the most serious charges in the county.

John and Louis Rebelo and Robert Goral, whom city police arrested in September, are facing charges of operating a drug factory out of their Mulberry Lane home. Goral and John Rebelo appeared in Middletown Superior Court Friday. Louis Rebelo will return to court on Oct. 15.

Police responded to reports of an explosion at 34 Mulberry Lane on Sept. 18. Officers reported the distinct odor of marijuana hanging heavy in the air and that they found a glass dish holding marijuana residue near the blast.

When police searched the remains of the house they turned up over 13 pounds of marijuana, an eighth of an ounce of molly, psilocybin mushrooms, 2.5 pounds of butane hash oil (BHO), nearly a pound of hashish and a stash of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).